The Second High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership
The Global Partnership’s Second High-Level Meeting (HLM2) marked a major milestone in the global efforts to reach the SDGs by 2030, bringing together over 4,600 participants from 157 countries. The Nairobi Outcome Document agreed on specific commitments for governments, parliaments, civil society, businesses, philanthropy and international organisations to maximise the effectiveness of all forms of co-operation for development for the shared benefit of people and planet, recognizing their differentiated roles and contributions. It also reinforces this vision in a renewed mandate for the Global Partnership, annexed to the Nairobi Outcome Document. Three new Co-Chairs of the Global Partnership from Bangladesh, Germany and Uganda will guide the work of the Global Partnership going forward.
Global Partnership Monitoring: What have we achieved, and how can we do better?
During the Second High-Level Meeting in Nairobi, close to 500 participants contributed to the workshop "Monitoring Effective Development Co-operation: What have we achieved? How can we do better?" The workshop brought together relevant stakeholders and generated substantive discussions about how to make progress on the development effectiveness agenda, both politically and technically. Read the summary of the workshop, or see how your country/agency performed in the 2016 Progress Report.
Implementation, implementation, implementation: Using the findings of the 2016 monitoring round
The 2016 monitoring round helped identify progress and bottlenecks in the way countries and their development partners work together, and several countries/development partners have started reflecting around these findings. This includes Germany, which organized internal workshops in early March to take stock of its performance against the Busan commitments. The European Union and its member states came together in a Development Effectiveness seminar in Brussels in March to take stock of their collective performance against the Busan commitments and reflect on how to unlock current bottlenecks, such as untying aid. Honduras, Sweden and Switzerland are planning to convene discussions to take stock of the results and devise actions to address them. The United Arab Emirates is planning capacity-building workshops in the coming months. The4th Arab-DAC Dialogue on Development will convene in Switzerland on 27 March to discuss best practices in implementing the Busan commitments for more effective development co-operation.
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How can governments and development partners best align to achieve the 2030 Agenda?
The European Union and the OECD co-hosted a “Mutual Accountability through Results” workshop in February to tackle the question of how to establish effective national results frameworks to collectively achieve the 2030 Agenda. Acknowledging the complexity of current multiple results frameworks, the workshop proposed to focus at high-level alignment on results between countries and their development partners and to rethink current mutual accountability arrangements in the context of the SDGs.
Find more details about the work of the results-based decision making community here.
Global Partnership Co-Chairs and Joint Support Team Planning Meeting
Representatives of the new Co-Chairs of the Global Partnership and of the Joint Support Team (OECD and UNDP) convened their first meeting on 27-28 February in Dhaka, Bangladesh at the invitation of the Government of Bangladesh. The purpose was to follow-up on the HLM2 outcome and to allow the Co-Chairs to exchange on their vision and priorities for the coming biennium.
The Global Partnership’s full leadership will convene for the 13th Meeting of Steering Committee on 23-24 April 2017 in Washington, D.C. in the margins of the World Bank Group and IMF Spring Meetings. Leadership will discuss and agree on the 2017-18 work programme of the Global Partnership to ensure clear targets and responsibilities for the implementation of all aspects of the work of the Global Partnership.
Global Partnership Initiatives News and Updates
The Global Partnership Initiatives (GPIs) are voluntary initiatives led by different types of development actors to advance implementation of development effectiveness principles. GPIs spearhead the achievement of development results at country and regional levels. The 28 GPIs, some newly launched at HLM2 and other already successful GPIs extended/expanded, contribute to reaching the Global Partnership’s vision by directly implementing commitments and by generating evidence, policy-relevant lessons and innovative solutions that can feed both mutual accountability and learning within the Global Partnership.
Two new reports identify the latest trends in global philanthropy. “Bringing Foundations and Governments Closer, A Cross- Country Analysis” analyses the experiences of India, Kenya, Mexico and Myanmar in implementing the Guidelines for Effective Philanthropic Engagement. The report compares the results of surveys carried out in the four countries between 2015 and 2016 to assess engagement between foundations and governments. It also offers recommendations on how to foster higher levels of engagement between governments and foundations. “Bringing Foundations and Governments Closer, Evidence From Mexico” documents the experience of Mexico in implementing the Guidelines on Effective Philanthropic Engagement. The report is also available in Spanish.
IATI Annual Report and Advisory Group Meeting
The International Aid Transparency Initiative 2016 Annual Report indicates considerable progress in its coverage. In 2016, USD 146 billion of disbursements and expenditures have been reported under IATI – up from USD 78 billion in 2015. Over 500 organisations are now IATI publishers – a 40 percent increase since 2015. Forward-looking budget data was published on USD 126 billion for 2017 and 2018 – compared to only USD 34 billion reported in 2015. Of the 27 IATI partner country members, 25 are able to access IATI data for at least nine of their largest 10 development partners – an increase of eight partner country members since 2015.
Download the full report here in English, French and Spanish.
IATI’s annual Technical Advisory Group meeting took place on 6-9 March 2017 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. More than 170 stakeholders worked towards ensuring the IATI Standard remains fit for use for an increasingly broad base of publishers and users.
Agricord, the initiative to carry out capacity building projects for professional farmers’ organisations in developing countries, launched a partnership with the Access to Seeds Foundation in 2016. The Partnership will seek to ensure producer organisations are involved in the establishment of regional indices measuring smallholder producers’ access to quality seeds. The objective of the index is to better coordinate between seed users and providers, and to encourage better public accountability of the industry. The initiative contributes to the SDGs by optimising private sector contribution to smallholders’ productivity. Regional workshops among producer organisations on the regional indices took place on 18-19 October in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and on 28-29 November in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Advancing CSO Enabling Environment & CSO Development Effectiveness
Before HLM2, the Task Team on CSO Development Effectiveness and Enabling Environment conducted a stock-take of stakeholder experiences and perceptions of Indicator 2 of the Global Partnership’s Monitoring Framework (“Civil society operates within an environment which maximizes its engagement in and contribution to development”). Many of the participants in 120 interviews expressed interest in holding multi-stakeholder dialogues and identified challenges related to the recommended multi-stakeholder approach in revising Indicator 2.
The Task Team’s side event at HLM2, co-organized with Sida, examined progress made in implementation and monitoring of the CSO enabling environment and development effectiveness in line with the Indicator 2 framework. It proposed to establish a new Task Team Global Partnership Initiative to raise awareness and provide capacity support and tools to support multi-stakeholder engagement at country level, including Guidance for Indicator Two. The Task Team invites stakeholders to submit examples from their country or region that speak to one or more of Indicator Two’s four modules for inclusion in the Guidance. The invitation remains open via the online form available here.
Localizing development agendas: the role of local and regional governments in effective development co-operation
Shaping national development agendas: the role of local and regional governments in effective development, a GPI renewed at HLM2 in Nairobi, is entering a phase of expansion. Through the participation of the European Commission and other networks of local and regional governments (PLATFORMA, Commonwealth Local Government Forum, International Association of French Speaking Mayors, and UCLG Africa), UCLG and partners hope to strengthen local, national and international dialogues on effective development co-operation; contribute to the involvement of local and regional governments in national development strategies for the implementation of the SDGs; develop peer to peer learning and exchanges through training and capacity building initiatives; and support the capacity of local and regional governments, and their associations, to report on their contribution to SDG implementation.
Upcoming events include four pilot multi-stakeholder dialogues on development policies, organized by local government associations, and six pilot actions for the localization of the SDGs, developed by CLGF in Malawi, Rwanda, Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Dominica. Additionally, UCLG, UNDP, UN Habitat and the city of Madrid developed a “training of trainers” module on Localizing the SDGs, to be taught to 25-30 representatives of local government associations and cities in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa during the UCLG Executive Bureau in April. Finally, on 29 May 2017, a joint experts event on localizing the SDGs in Europe, organized by PLATFORMA and the Council of European Municipalities and Regions, will be held in Brussels.
Closing the gap between the actual and the desired level of investments to achieve the SDGs is clearly beyond the reach of governments and public lenders. Only with resolute engagement from the private sector, notably through partnerships with the public sector, can this be addressed. Participants at this year’s OECD Global Forum on Development will take stock of existing initiatives to catalyse the power of the private sector in supporting the Sustainable Development Goals, explore new avenues of partnerships to mobilise the necessary resources and understand how the OECD can help.
The Global Forum on Development’s agenda and further details are available here.
ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum
22-25 May 2017, New York
United Nations High-Level Political Forum
10-19 July 2017, New York
